Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
an introduction admitted that the concept of religion was vague, but this did not mean that it was vacuous. Enough was known abo ...
an introduction was thus a projection of infantile forms of dependency onto external real- ity. In his classic book Future of an ...
an introduction An acknowledged phenomenologist of religion was Geradus van der Leeuw (1890–1930), a Dutch scholar, who identifi ...
an introduction creation for which humans must take responsibility, was a quest for power that enabled humans to manipulate and ...
an introduction becoming, contingency, relativity, and chance. They are generally opposed to metaphysics and ontological foundat ...
an introduction also necessarily revives the theory of evolution for understanding the devel- opment of religion. Within the con ...
an introduction science are good examples). The substantive definition seeks to identify a central belief, such as a belief in s ...
an introduction God. If God is in fact dead (whatever one might mean by such a state- ment), Religious Studies is alive and thri ...
an introduction spirit) in contrast to Naturwissenschaft. Without being modeled necessar- ily on the natural sciences, the Germa ...
an introduction in the Western tradition, it is not unusual to find offerings on subjects such as ritual, myth, feminist approac ...
an introduction living memory of the ways in which all of these constitutive factors are related to each other” (Capps 1995: xvi ...
an introduction the imagination of a student novice to the field with concepts such as the comic, dance, drugs, eroticism, madne ...
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agency AFTERLIFE Although there is a wide variety of belief about the afterlife from a cross- cultural perspective, this richnes ...
agnosticism Within a cultural context, agency refers to the way that individuals behave despite their social and religious conte ...
ancestors God exists or not. To be certain or to have faith that God exists represents a theistic position, whereas to deny the ...
ancestors between the dead and the living at two locations: home and ancestral temple. The family sacrifices of a more elaborate ...
animism powers. Thus, ancestors introduce disorder into the beer, which excites the drinker and motivates him to establish the a ...
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